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Scientist turned entrepreneur, Dr Tan Kok Kheng is an example of someone ahead of his time. By pioneering the use of sawdust as a host material on which to grow mushrooms and shortening the growth time for Shiitake from one year to two months, he has invested the past 20 years of his life in an industry that only recently has been identified as "hot". While "hot property" may seem like a crude exaggeration of this serious-minded academic and father of two adult children, his company MycoBiotech Group of which he is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer most certainly is.

Although Tan can be credited with introducing the local population to, and creating an awareness of, fresh mushrooms as opposed to the traditional dried fungi commonly used in Chinese cooking, he says: "Apart from the culinary aspect, the more interesting part is the medicinal properties of mushrooms such as extracting the bioactive components and selling it as a supplement and a drug. This is the whole area of life sciences that the government is presently trying to promote."

The Company focuses primarily on the following areas of businesses: Research and development of biotechnology-based commercial production of exotic and medicinal mushrooms Research, development and sale of mushroom-based nutraceuticals and functional foods Research and clinical trials of potential anti-cancer, immune enhancing and other medicinal properties of mushrooms for further development into biopharmaceutical products Licensing of the Company’s patented mushroom cultivation technology and licensing of the extraction and formulation of various mushroom-based nutraceuticals, functional foods and biopharmaceutical products Production and sales of different types of mushrooms